Putin unterzeichnet Dekret zur Rekrutierung von 133.000 Männern für die Wehrpflichtkampagne im Herbst

When will they start kidnapping people from neighboring countries for the war? I hear students from India are victims of this phenomenon already.

Frown for those titles. It’s about regular conscription that happens semi-annually. Why not saying it straight? But no, we need more hate /s

Quoting the very first sentence:

>Vladimir Putin signed a decree calling up 133,000 young men for mandatory military service as part of the routine autumn conscription campaign

What a joke Novaya Gazeta Europe has become. After moving to Latvia it’s nothing like real independent journalism anymore but just propaganda. They must be ashamed to even use that name.

Remember guys

The Army consists of Concsripted Ethnic Minorities and Poor Russians but also the Russian people as a whole are evil down to the core and willing actors

Also Russia will collapse in like 2 seconds with their comically weak army but it also has the capacity to be the root cause behind every bad thing that’s going on in Europe (and the world) rn

The enemy is both weak and dangerously cunning

The enemy is both weak and dangerously cunning

The enemy is both weak and dangerously cunning

The enemy is both weak and dangerously cunning

The enemy is both weak and dangerously cunning

Just to be clear, it happens twice a year and has nothing to do with the war. I guess many of those conscripts will be pressured to sign a contract later though.

More meat for the cube

meat for less than 100 days

Crippling the nation for decades if not millennia’s to come, just to proof the point of “I am right and you are wrong” (obviously to all that he is wrong though)

What about women?

Or is Russia trying to create the scenario from its 2022 TV series “Два холма” (Dva holma) in real life?

(It’s a nicely made fun tv series btw, reminds me of the movie “Sexmission” from 1984 we had in Poland)

Sad, but on the other hand why the compliance?
When will Russian people stand up and say “This is enough!”

They were able to depose the tzar, organize a revolution in the past, not once

What a waste of life and resources. Russia is signing their own demographic death warrant if it continues with this war for much longer.

From where? Probably not Moscow or St Petersburg

I think people here still don’t realise how dire the situation is for Ukraine.

Ukraine is still facing serious problems with respect to manpower and artillery hells.

Even in Kursk, where Ukraine focused its effort, it was facing shell hunger:

“[No Ukrainian artillery had responded to the Russian shelling when they were under attack. “Our artillery didn’t fire,” he said. “We are facing ‘shell hunger’ again.” (…) Of his 15-member team, only five survived a similar frontline ambush. “We are losing many people there,” he said, shaking his head.](https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/russian-drones-and-missiles-bombard-ukraine-for-second-night-c3s0sdm2s)”

[While Ukraine recently conscripted around 30,000 people each month since May](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-troops-russia-mobilization.html), they are poorly trained with low morale. “[They described having to plan operations with infantry who are unable to shoot targets and uninformed about basic topography. Some recruits simply lacked faith in the battle plans of their superiors and walked away from prepared positions.](https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-new-recruits-pokrovsk-ed2d06ad529e3b7e47ecd32f79911b83)” Further, Ukraine still doesn’t have enough men to hold the lines: “[In some instances, advancing Russian troops have turned Ukraine’s concrete trenches into their own. More often than not, there have simply not been enough Ukrainian obstacles or men to hold the lines. The Russians are much better resourced in this regard, with ten dedicated engineering regiments against Ukraine’s one regiment and two brigades.](https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/08/29/even-as-it-humiliates-russia-ukraines-line-is-crumbling-in-the-donbas)”

Here is a report from the WSJ:

“Commanders in the east describe a situation that has grown more punishing through the summer—with no sign that Russian forces are easing up since the Kursk incursion began. Despite the approval of another U.S. military aid package in April, **they remain desperately low on artillery ammunition: Russia has a 10-to-1 advantage in artillery fire in some areas. In addition, the Russians are neutralizing Ukrainian drones with electronic jammers. But the biggest factor, officers say, is the lack of manpower.**

“If we’re supposed to have five or six people in a position, we’ll have two or three,” said a 45-year-old army major who has been stationed in the Chasiv Yar area for the past two months. **He said they were so short-handed that cooks, mechanics and other rear personnel were being deployed to trenches.** “It’s a matter of time before the enemy finds a weak spot.”

The commander of the 21st Battalion, who goes by the call sign Kucher, said that when his men arrived in the Krasnohorivka area in the spring, they had roughly the same number of men as the Russians.

**Now, he said, the Russians have a manpower advantage of around five to one. Only about 20% of the casualties his battalion takes are replaced by new recruits, and the mobilized men who arrive tend to be older than those who volunteered at the start of the war.** As in other brigades, the average age of infantrymen has ticked up over 40.

**Exhausted soldiers are spending longer in the trenches**, Kucher said, because there are no fresh troops to replace them.”

[https://www.wsj.com/world/as-ukraine-invades-russia-kyivs-troops-are-in-trouble-on-the-eastern-front-8a7b1686](https://www.wsj.com/world/as-ukraine-invades-russia-kyivs-troops-are-in-trouble-on-the-eastern-front-8a7b1686)